2.8 • Archives Creative Shrimp https://www.creativeshrimp.com/tag/2-8 Blender tutorials and courses for 3D artists Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:31:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 Animating Lights in Blender https://www.creativeshrimp.com/animating-lights.html Sun, 03 Jan 2021 17:08:42 +0000 https://www.creativeshrimp.com/?p=15871 In this free Blender tutorial from our upcoming new lighting course let’s take a look at animating the lights themselves. There are a lot more ways to animate lighting that first meets the eye, using a simple subway scene lets shine a light on the subject!

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]]> In this free Blender tutorial from our upcoming new lighting course let’s take a look at animating the lights themselves. There are a lot more ways to animate lighting that first meets the eye, using a simple subway scene lets shine a light on the subject! [sorry bad pun I know.]

  • 2 different ways for animating switching a light on and off
  • Having some fun with autokeyframing
  • Animating light flicker
  • Animating with Drivers
  • Creating custom properties
  • Synchronizing the lamp objects with the emissive materials

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]]> Extrusion Confusion | Blender Modeling Tutorial https://www.creativeshrimp.com/extrude-manifold-blender-tutorial.html Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:23:43 +0000 https://www.creativeshrimp.com/?p=15702 Different modeling engines (voxel, Nurbs, distance field) have different pros and cons. Blender uses a polygonal approach, it’s an amazingly effective approach for both precision and speed, BUT! There are some drawbacks, let’s banish those demonic polygonal forces once and for all! Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Blender Market Get

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]]> Different modeling engines (voxel, Nurbs, distance field) have different pros and cons. Blender uses a polygonal approach, it’s an amazingly effective approach for both precision and speed, BUT! There are some drawbacks, let’s banish those demonic polygonal forces once and for all!

Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Blender Market

Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues From Hell’ course on Teachable

Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Gumroad

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]]> Radial Details https://www.creativeshrimp.com/radial-details.html Thu, 11 Jun 2020 09:12:36 +0000 https://www.creativeshrimp.com/?p=15614 How many radial details will you want? Here with the power of Blender we show a non-destructive way to be able to change the amount on the fly. Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Blender Market Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Gumroad

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]]> How many radial details will you want? Here with the power of Blender we show a non-destructive way to be able to change the amount on the fly.

  • Symmetrical radial instancing
  • Edit in place radially or even easier edit aligned to the world
  • Use modifiers in a non-destructive way to increase or decrease the amount of times the details repeat symmetrically around the mesh
  • Disc shape radial details
  • Cylindrical radial details
  • and more!

Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Blender Market

Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Gumroad

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]]> Lofting Between Shapes https://www.creativeshrimp.com/lofting-shapes.html Mon, 18 May 2020 14:48:02 +0000 https://www.creativeshrimp.com/?p=15591 Our latest video course for Blender: 50 Modeling Issues from Hell has just been released! Here’s a free sample chapter on how to loft between shapes. Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Blender Market Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Gumroad

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]]> Our latest video course for Blender: 50 Modeling Issues from Hell has just been released! Here’s a free sample chapter on how to loft between shapes.

  • Lofting through simple shapes
  • Quick and easy Boolean cleanup
  • Lofting from 1 shape to 2
  • Subtitles Included
  • This video is brought to you by the number 32!

Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Blender Market

Get the full ’50 Modeling Issues from Hell’ course on Gumroad

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]]> Advanced Normal Map Creation Tips https://www.creativeshrimp.com/advanced-normal-map-creation-tips.html Mon, 22 Jul 2019 09:43:52 +0000 https://www.creativeshrimp.com/?p=15283 Following on from the Substance Designer tutorial, here are some tips to help take our normal map creations to the next level. In this Blender tutorial we’ll… Chapter List 00:00 – Overview01:06 – Bump to matcap style05:47 – Making it work from all angles07:51 – Geometry + Textures = WOO!09:09 – Node groups10:41 – The

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]]> Following on from the Substance Designer tutorial, here are some tips to help take our normal map creations to the next level.

In this Blender tutorial we’ll…

  • Show how to recreate a normal map matcap that works for geometry and bump textures
  • Make a node group to use as a master control to switch between render passes
  • Show how to combine 2 normal map textures together
  • Show how to combine grayscale height textures with normal maps
blender 2.8 tutorial eevee

Chapter List

00:00 – Overview
01:06 – Bump to matcap style
05:47 – Making it work from all angles
07:51 – Geometry + Textures = WOO!
09:09 – Node groups
10:41 – The global switch
14:01 – Mixing 2 normal map textures
17:20 – End

normal map matcap
bake passes master switch

Links & Project Files

Download Blender 2.8

Using Blender Like Substance Designer

Procedural Clean Asphalt Texturing in Eevee Tutorial

Principled PBR Baker

Simple Bake on the Blender Market

Blending in Detail, Combining 2 Normal Maps Article

Combining 2 Normal Maps node group on Blendswap by radcapricorn

Baked Road Scene with Pavement Demo File

Textures.one Excellent PBR image texture resource

Let’s carry it on in the comments below if you think we should go into further details on anything!

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]]> Using Blender Like Substance Designer https://www.creativeshrimp.com/blender-substance-designer.html https://www.creativeshrimp.com/blender-substance-designer.html#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2019 20:35:29 +0000 https://www.creativeshrimp.com/?p=15260 Sometimes baking to an image texture will let us down if we have some alpha transparency involved, so instead here’s a Substance Designer styled approach to getting our needed bakes out of Blender 2.8 instead… In this Blender tutorial we’ll… Chapter List 00:00 – Overview02:51 – Reason To Layer05:11 – Baking To A Plane05:24 –

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]]> Sometimes baking to an image texture will let us down if we have some alpha transparency involved, so instead here’s a Substance Designer styled approach to getting our needed bakes out of Blender 2.8 instead…

In this Blender tutorial we’ll…

  • Show how to bake to a plane
  • Setup camera and materials to render like a bake
  • Show a potential bug in the current Eevee renders
  • Convert the bump node output to a normal map using nodes
  • Save out the texture passes
  • Show the renders working in Eevee and in Unreal Engine 4

Chapter List

00:00 – Overview
02:51 – Reason To Layer
05:11 – Baking To A Plane
05:24 – Baking 1 – Create the plane to bake to
05:32 – Baking 2 – Create the texture to bake to
06:30 – Baking 3 – Choose bake pass type
06:46 – Baking 4 – Select the geometry you want to bake to the plane
05:09 – Baking 5 – Hit Bake – or see 6 to optimize
07:00 – Baking 6 – Optimize
07:14 – Limitations Of Baking
08:04 – Setting Up The Camera
09:30 – Setting Up The Materials
10:22 – Frames and reroute nodes
12:15 – Continuing with the materials
13:54 – Rendering Final Setup
14:53 – Eevee rendering border issue (world material bleed)
16:33 – Continuing with rendering final setup
17:50 – Bump To Normal Map
20:08 – Saving The Textures
22:27 – Using The Textures on a single plane
24:58 – Using The Textures In UE4
27:23 – END

BAKE DOWNSIDE – Notice (above right) the loss of detail

BAKE UPSIDE – Notice above the speed at which the shader updates on the first plane. Simply put we get faster changes and faster renders. Meanwhile the 2nd plane that isn’t baked and still has huge amounts of node calculations takes close to 20 seconds to make the same change.

Links & Project Files

Download Blender 2.8

Procedural Clean Asphalt Texturing in Eevee Tutorial

Updated asphalt blend file with packed textures and single plane setup

Google Summer Of Code Procedural Texturing Project

Substance Designer

Great Blender Procedural Examples and Giveaways by Simon Thommes

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